OpenAI Foundation Sued Over Design of ChatGPT
Attorneys at Hagens Berman announced Monday that they filed a lawsuit last week against the OpenAI Foundation on behalf of the estate of Stein-Erik Soelberg “for wrongful death and negligence due to the design of its popular artificial intelligence chatbot,…
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ChatGPT,” which, they said, “encouraged and convinced a man to murder his mother and commit suicide.” The complaint alleges that “the chatbot’s design and response patterns intensified the user’s mental health crisis, failing to guide him toward professional assistance,” the law firm said. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California.